UPDATE: Thanks to everyone for sharing the chart! You can vote for it on Reddit here (please do!), I would LOVE to see it again on BoingBoing, if someone sends me a Submitterator post I’ll add it here as well. If there’s anywhere else you share it to, please let me know!

I think we’ve all seen it before, the argument online that gets out of hand. Our message is simple, the minute you engage you probably should have walked away. So don’t get angry, just chill the fuck out and eat a sandwich. I mean look at Professor Internet. He seems like a smart cat. Better listen to him.

UPDATE UPDATE: There has been some interesting (and some infuriating) discussion and comments generated by this comic both here on the site and in places it’s been posted, and there’s one point that I (Rosscott) wanted to touch on. I wrote most of this to respond to a well-reasoned comment by “Unimpressed” and wanted to post it here as well (I rewrote it slightly now that I’ve gotten some sleep):

There’s a distinct difference between a discussion and an argument. We’re focusing much more on the lighter side, clearly. There are people out there who have conflicting opinions and who can benefit from serious debate. By and large the people who engage in “discussion” (especially in many popular forums on the Internet) are really just interested in saying what they want, not listening what you have to say.

This chart is meant as humor and hyperbole. But notice, according to the chart, reading through the whole story and saying your piece is much “higher” on the list than being an insulting jerk who flies off the handle and doesn’t know what exactly they are talking about and what they are commenting on, so even within this chart we implore people to actually know what they are talking about before commenting.

People are allowed to agree or disagree, and discourse is how people form opinions and are introduced to new ideas. But there are times to discuss and times to argue, and those arguments are times where that energy is better spent eating a sandwich.

If you’re interested, we’re selling 11×17 prints of this chart (slightly rearranged to fit better on a poster) over at my online store, HilariAwesome.com. Go check it out! And if you want any other shirts / stickers / merch based on it, we’re listening!

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I see what you did there.

Nia

Oh see it really should have been … D) Not What I Think.

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Ishmael

A nice warning against misology, but I’m not sure that ignoring problematic views and hatred online is necessarily the best course. Sometimes it may be better to take a stand and to stand up against people who say hateful things. If anything, the solidarity will help people who are the victims of such verbal online attacks.

In any case, the chart highlights an important point of not being a misologist, and of also being civil while online. Maybe you’ve misinterpreted someone’s intentions. In any case, if everyone behaved a bit better while online maybe there would be fewer problems with hate.

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